| 词汇 | wild man of borneo |
| 词源 | wild man of Borneo. P. T. Barnum coined the name of this sideshow attraction, as he did many others. In the mid-19th century, Barnum displayed the Wild Man in his Brooklyn-based American Museum of Curios. The name holds on today as a hu- morous description of someone unkempt and disheveled, as in “Is that what you’re going to wear—you look like the Wild Man of Borneo!” See there’s a sucker born every minute. |
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